China's Rule of Law

Updated Dec. 29, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

By Sally A. Harpole. Ms. Harpole is a partner and head of China practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP in Hong Kong.

"C hina's legal institutions today are more vigorous than any that China has ever known." With this opening, lawyer and consulting professor at Stanford Law School Stanley Lubman explores in his book "Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao" how "extraordinary" social and economic change over the past two decades compelled the appearance of new law and institutions,...